Originally posted by jonza


And I'm not trying to twist any knives, I'm just fumbling about trying to find some truth and logic in this awful mess.
You'll never find truth and logic there.....

I am not saying 'they' messed up, WE messed up.

I think, as an American, I can take just as much blame for what happened in that prison. It was not my hand, but it was done by the hands we sent to represent us.

Guilty by association.

We hang all our dirty laundry on the line for everyone to see. It's all there.

If you want to see some brutal torture pics check out the "Rape of Nanking" In that tome there is a pic of some soldiers standing next to a woman with a bayonet between her legs.

We didn't invent torture, beheadings or anything like that....The reason this story broke is we have the same technology that everyone uses across the world that was able to get the 'word' out about what we did.... and you'll hear about what we do ABOUT IT thru the same medium.

There is no sanity, truth or logic in what happened. Ordinary Americans, ashamed of the actions of a few, will accept it, try to fix it and move on. While it may not be the answer that the world is looking for, it's the best we can do with our system, and imperfect as it is.

If we don't learn from our mistakes here,
then we deserve the mistrust of the world.

We aren't the first to screw up in front of the world, and we won't be the last.

What happened in those walls of that prison is not
typically American, that much I know.

But, I have yet to see a perfect government on the planet.....

I think we can take our place amongst the not-so-perfect countries.

We have forgotten and forgiven, I don't see why we aren't afforded the same privilege.